This Thursday, the 1st of February 2018, the European Commission has published its proposal for a revision of Directive 98/83/EC (the “Drinking Water Directive”, DWD). We welcome this proposal, which places water utilities at the centre of a more holistic approach to managing the provision of drinking water services .

This month of November has seen the start of the exchanges under Water Erasmus, the Aqua Publica Europea staff exchange programme, with a visit from two employees from Gruppo CAP, the operator serving the Milan province, to the Paris' water operator Eau de Paris.

The « APE Water Erasmus », launched in Paris on the 29th of May, aims at promoting knowledge sharing among public operators through short-term staff exchanges. The aim of this open-ended project is to build on APE members’ best practices and experiences in order to increase the skills of the public water industry in addressing common challenges.

The APE Management Board, meeting in Bari (Italy) on the 9th of October, has welcomed two new members: Aguas de Cádiz, the public water operator of the city of Cádiz in southern Spain, and Hamburg Wasser, the second biggest public water operator of Germany.

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Aqua Publica Europea (APE) was founded in 2008 to promote public water management at European and international level. APE is an international, not-for-profit association under Belgian law. Our members are publicly owned water and sanitation services, together with their national and regional associations. APE is the only international network focusing on water governance and policy issues exclusively from the public sector perspective.